Yes.
God commanded Avraham to circumcise his sons and future male descendants. The obligation was derived from that command to apply to all fathers of male children. The relevant sources are laid out by Ramba"m here.
There are many mitzvos completion of which necessitates altering something's ...
@WAF I linkified "Ramba"m" and "mitzvos" for you. I like to apply a lower jargon threshold when the question is clearly from an outsider's or newcomer's perspective.
@WAF I hope so, too. I think it's fair to assume that Josh is a male.
@WAF How did you pick the particular other mitzvot to list?
@IsaacMoses I sort of thought drush or midrash or medrash or whatever is for the drasha part of the "pardes" and parshanut-torah-comment for the p'shat part.
@IsaacMoses Your comment there makes sense IMO, but then all midrashim -- anything than can get tagged midrash or whatever -- can also be tagged drush. If that's the case then the tag wikis should IMO state that drush is a coarser tag than midrash or whatever.
@Isaac, what's the close reason you use for riddles? I've found another.
Also, @Isaac, my brother-in-law is on good terms with the incoming editor of the YU _Commentator_. Do you have a release you want to forward, or something? Should I e-mail you?
@msh210 "not a real question" seems the way to go to me, but I'm just wondering what you used.
@msh210 Midrash is a body of work, a great deal of which does parshanut, but not all. I'd say that midrash should refer to that body of work, parshanut-torah-content should refer to commentary on the Penteteuch (and perhaps the whole Tanach), drush should perhaps be a synonym of the latter, and where they intersect, they intersect.
@msh210 I started out using NARQ, but switched to Not Constructive and used that for most. I think a comment with reference to the relevant meta post is more important.
@msh210 Please email me. I'll put you in touch with SE's publicist, who probably has a press release for the purpose. In addition, if your b-i-l can arrange the call, I'd be happy to pitch J.SE to the Commentator editor.
Why is this barbaric ritual still taking place? "God" gave it to them, did s/he also tell them to have it cut off?
Yes.
God commanded Avraham to circumcise his sons and future male descendants. The obligation was derived from that command to apply to all fathers of male children. The relevant sources are laid out by Ramba"m here.
There are many mitzvos completion of which necessitates altering something's ...
